March comes in, they say, like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Could be. Today started off with sunshine, and has devolved into brief cloudbursts, short windstorm–the kind that would shut down the turbines— another cloudburst and more sunshine. It’s 45° and I can still see a patch of blue sky out the window, but clouds dominate. Fortunately, the grocery stores are full of blooms to assuage the gloom.

There are various bursts — Valentine’s Day flowers were a reminder to every man who entered the store that he’d better not forget to take some home. We’ll have some green-dyed carnations for St. Patrick’s Day, and then explosions of flowers for Easter and Mother’s Day. But where do they all come from when the weather is so miserable here?